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[单项选择]United States hospitals have traditionally relied primarily on revenues from paying patients to offset losses from unreimbursed care. Almost all paying patients now rely on governmental or private health insurance to pay hospital bills. Recently, insurers have been strictly limiting what they pay hospitals for the care of insured patients to amounts at or below actual costs.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above
A. Although the advance of technology has made expensive medical procedures available to the wealthy, such procedures are out of the reach of low-income patients.
B. If hospitals do not find ways of raising additional income for unreimbursed care, they must either deny some of that care or suffer losses if they give it.
C. Some patients have incomes too high for eligibility for governmental health insurance but are unable to afford private insurance for hospital care.
D. If the hospitals reduce their costs in providing care, insurance companies will maintain the current level of reimbursement, thereby providing more funds for unreimbursed care.
E. (E) Even though philanthropic donations have traditionally provided some support for the hospitals, such donations are at present declining.
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President Abraham Lincoln often visited hospitals to talk with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Once, doctors pointed out a young soldier who was near death and Lincoln went over to his bedside.
"Is there anything I can do for you7" asked the President.
The soldier obviously didn’t recognize Lincoln, and with some effort he was able to whisper. "Would you please write a letter to my mother"
A pen and paper were provided and the President carefully began writing down what the young man was able to say:
"My dearest mother, 1 was badly hurt while doing my duty. I’m afraid I’m not going to recover. Don’t grieve (悲伤) too much for me, please. Kiss Mary and John for me. May God bless you and father."
The soldier was too weak to continue, so Lincoln signed the letter for him and added, "written for your son by Abraham Lincoln."
The young man asked to see the note and was
A. He was a kind and warm-hearted man.
B. He was the greatest president in the United States.
C. He was always ready to help his soldiers.
D. He was not only a president but also a doctor.
[单项选择]The law prohibits hospitals and medical practices from distributing a patient’s （） information to any third party.
A. person
B. personal
C. personally
D. personality
[单项选择]What causes hospitals to lose their normal functions
A. Inadequate investment.
B. Large-scale outbreaks of diseases.
C. Lack of experienced surgeons.
D. Outdated health facilities.
[单项选择]Bringing Art into Hospitals
The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the (36) in hospitals may play an important (37) to help patients to get better.
As (38) of nationwide effort in Britain to bring (39) out (40) the museums and into (41) places, some of the country’s best artists have (42) in to change older hospital and to soften the (43) edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent movements first (44) by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and (45) he should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
A common hospital waiting room might have (46)
A. called
B. been calling
C. been called
D. to call
